Robotics Software Engineer
About The Position
Aurelius Systems is a VC-backed defense tech startup building autonomous, edge-deployed directed energy systems for counter-UAS. We build laser weapons to shoot down drones. We are a small team of engineers, former US military operators, and subject matter experts scaling America's directed energy dominance. We are building the first cost-effective, reliable, and robust laser weapon system. Our namesake isn't an accident. Marcus Aurelius wrote about doing the work in front of you, every day, without excuses. Henry Ford didn't wait for permission to reinvent manufacturing. That's how we operate: small team, unreasonable output, no hiding behind the unachievable. In addition to our San Francisco lab, we opened our Detroit manufacturing hub and field test weekly on our own 400-acre private range. We need a Robotics Software Engineer who writes fast, correct C++ that runs on real hardware. You’ll work on the Archimedes stack alongside our Lead Software Engineer, taking raw sensor data and turning it into tracking, control, and autonomy that has to work in real time. Performance and accuracy matter more than anything. Your scope grows as fast as you do; our Lead went from Founding Robotics Engineer to Lead in 12 months.
Requirements
- 2+ years writing production C++ that runs on real hardware or real-time systems
- Comfort below the abstraction layer: threading, concurrency, memory, performance profiling
- You implement, not just design. You’ve shipped code you wrote
- Evidence you learn fast: you got effective in a new domain in months, not years
- You’ve written C++ where latency or timing actually mattered and you measured it.
Nice To Haves
- ROS2 (a good signal, though we've moved past it)
- Rust or other systems languages
- Sensor integration and calibration
- Real-time Linux
- Projects touching motion planning, dynamics, trajectory optimization, or state estimation.
Responsibilities
- Production C++ across the stack: sensor ingestion, tracking, control and autonomy
- Working directly with drivers and raw sensor data, not pre-packaged inputs
- Threading, process architecture and performance on the paths you own
- Timing and latency analysis, and making the fixes it points to
- Python tooling for testing, analysis and the range
- Debugging on hardware at weekly field tests
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- United Health Care medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Flexible 18 days PTO plus 5 sick days
- Travel to field test events and range days
- Covered daily lunches and office snacks and drinks
- E-bike and scooter stipend up to $500
- Direct access to leadership and real ownership over your work
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
